Mexico weekly ledger., 1887-03-24
THE LEDGER.
THURSDAY. MARCH n, 1887.
Bill MES NEW TEETH.
Bits Journalistic Young son Writes D
Piece About How to Rear Children.

DEAR HENRY: Your last issue OF
the RetiHa, your new thought vehicle,
published ut New Belony, was received
Yesterday. like this number. think,
better than ! did the first. While the
news in it seems freshcr. the editorial
assertions are not SO fresh. You do
not state that q ..havc come to stay"
this week. but | infer that You occupy
the same position you did last week
with reference to that.
| was more especially interested in
vour piece about how to req children
and the care of parents. | read it TO
your mother last night while she was
setting her bread. Nothing tickles me
very often at my time of life, and when
/ laugh Il loud peal of laughter at any
thing nowadays it's got to be a pretty
blamed good thing, | a tell YOU that.
But your piece about bringing up chill
dren made me laugh real hard. l en-
JOY 4 piece like that from the pen OF q
Juicy young brain like yours. 1t al
most made me young again to 4 the
words of my journalistic goSling son.
You also say that "teething is the
most irwin" time for parents Doyou
mean that parents are more frettul
when they are teething than any other
time? Your mother and me reckoned
that you must mean that. If so. If
shows your great research. How q
mere child hardly out of knce-panties,
Il Young shoot like you. who was
never a parent for Z moment in his life,
can enter into and understand the
woes that bcset parents is more than |
can understand. If YOU had been
through what | have while tcething ]
could see how you might understand
and write about it, but at present l dc
not see through it. The first teeth
cut as 4 parent made me very restless.
l was sick two years ago with IA new
disease that was just III and the doctor
gave me something for it that made
nv teeth fall like the leaves of autumn,
In six weeks after | began to c~onvalesce
my mouth was perfectly bald headed.
For DAYS / didn't bite into a Ber
Davis apple that | didn't leave a fang
into it.
Wei, after that | saw an advertise
ment in the Rural RuStLer-a paper ]
used to take then-of Il place where
You could get Il set of teeth for Sc. J
didn't want to buy a high-priced and
.xidy set OF teeth at the tail end o.
such a life as | had led, and | knew
that teeth. no matter how expensive
they might be, would be of little avail
to coming generations, so l went oveI
to the place named in the paper an(
got an impression of my mouth taken
There i really nothing in this lif'
that will take the etiff-nccked pride GU
of a man ike viewing Il plaster cast y
his lettering mouth. The dentist fet
me with a large ladie full of putty o
plaster of paris, | reckon. and told M
to hold it in my mouth till it set.
| don't remember a time in all III,
life when the earth and transitor,
things even looked so undesirable anC
so tritling rs they did while | sat Their
in that big red barbcr-chair with IN,
mouth full of cold putty. felt jus
as a man might when he is being tax
iGcrmied.
After awhile the dentist DOL out tn
east. 1t wa a cloudy day and so
Didn't look much like me after all.
il had | would have sent YOU one
After I'd set again two or three times
we got Il pretty fair likeness, he said
and | went home, having paid So an
left my address.
Three weeks after that a small DO
came with my new teeth.
They were nice, white, shiny tecti
and did not look very CHASTITY after
had become used to them. wished /;
first that the gums had been Il dulle
red and that the teeth had not locke
SO new. | put them in my mouth, br
they felt cold and distant. too
them out and warmed them in the SUI
light. People going by no doul
thought that did it to show that
was able to have new teeth, but tina
was not the case.
| wore them ri! that forenoon Will
i butciIcrc1. There were times durin
the forenoon when | wantcii to tax
them out, but wien Il man is butcher
ing he hates ~ tlkc his teeth out ju,
because they hErl.
But. oh. how it relieved NE at nig}
to take those teeth ult and put the:
Oh the top Of e c,.oi bureau, where th
wind could k'oY through their whist
ers, How ! .Itcd to resume them i
the morning and start in on anothC
long day, when the roof of my mout
felt Ike biz red hunion and III
gums Ike Il pale red stone brrise.
\ yty.r are, Urury, about two-thirt
in the Afternoon, | think it was, | le
that set OF teeth in TIE rare flank of
barbecue ] was to in our town.
Since then | have no more unicorn
on The raftcrs Of my mouth and m
note is just a good at thirty days {
ever ii was.
lou are right, Henry, when you G
on TO state in your paper that teethin
is the most trying time for parents.
Ia tn, rs the Teller says.
Your FATHER.
Bill Aye, in Chicago NeUs.